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Although jobs are being cut due to COVID-19-related business closures, there are still clever ways to secure meaningful work experience this summer, an internship specialist says.
The ABS is providing near real-time data like never before. It’s labour force survey remains the most authorative way of tracking the labour market.
Lockdown throws our relationship with work into the spotlight.
For-profit colleges have a history of deceptive practices that have left thousands of students in the lurch, two higher education scholars warn.
A market closure is different to a recession.
The economic fallout from COVID-19 will likely harm new workers in distinct ways with long-term effects, three economists say.
It’s hard to keep up with what’s regarded as essential and non-essential services.
2.7 million jobs are at risk, 1.4 million of them immediately.
The coronavirus pandemic has forced employees and businesses to change the way they operate. Some of those changes may be permanent.
Major crises all necessitate massive state intervention.
Short-term schemes make it difficult to assess, but nine basic income-style programmes from Canada to Iran reveal some fascinating outcomes.
More of us are in work than ever before, but we are more cautious than before, less likely to ask for more pay or change jobs.
In a national survey, transgender individuals had worse employment outcomes, lower incomes and higher rates of poverty than cisgender people.
Co-working spaces have become popular since they were created in 2005, allowing self-employed workers to have a professional space outside an office and avoid isolation. But does it really work?
Technological change has always destroyed jobs. But now automation and artificial intelligence are drying up the options for those displaced.
Many of Britain’s elite employers do not perform well when it comes to cognitive diversity.
Men who work in female-dominated fields tend to get more prestige and higher wages.
Better job prospects and richer lives are among the many reasons to learn a foreign language, an expert on foreign language instruction writes.
Stigmas surrounding mental health can create difficult or even dangerous situations for employees struggling with mental illness.
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Professor of Economics and Political Economy, University of Leeds
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Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Economics, University of Nebraska Omaha
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Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for Future Work, Melbourne; and Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Associate Professor, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University
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Professor of Economics, University of Canberra
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Professor of Law, University of Oregon
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Professor of Employment Relations & HR Management, University of Birmingham
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Dean of Business School, University of Southern Queensland
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Professor of Work and Employment, University of Southampton
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Director of the King's Global Institute for Women's Leadership, Professor of Work and Employment, King's College London
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Applied Ethics and CyberSecurity, Griffith University